WhatsApp has simply made it simpler to pay attention to extra necessary messages from inside a dialog. Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and WhatsApp head Will Cathcart have each introduced on their respective WhatsApp channels that you will now have the ability to pin as much as three messages to the highest of a chat, permitting you fast entry to any data you need. As TechCrunch notes, you could possibly solely pin one message from the time the function launched in December up till now. However with this replace, it’s possible you’ll not have to save lots of, say, addresses or recipes you get from buddies in separate word recordsdata.
The Meta-owned messaging app has additionally up to date its Assist Middle to mirror the brand new three-message rule. You may pin not simply textual content messages, but additionally pictures and polls, and so they’ll keep on the prime of the chat for twenty-four hours, 7 days or a complete month. When you pin only one message, it will present up because the chat banner. However in the event you pin extra, the banner exhibits what number of messages are pinned, with the latest one showing first if you faucet on it.
To pin a message, you solely need to press on it, choose “pin” and select the length you need. You may unpin messages the identical means in the event you do not need to see it on the prime of your chat anymore earlier than the deadline you set comes up. Again in December WhatsApp additionally launched voice messages that self-destruct for those who need an additional layer of safety and privateness. And if an unconfirmed report that went out earlier this yr is true, then we might count on the service to launch an AirDrop-like file sharing functionality sooner or later.